A CHRITSTMAS CAROL FIRST PUBLISHED 175 YEARS AGO

A CHRITSTMAS CAROL FIRST PUBLISHED 175 YEARS AGO

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business […]

STIR-UP SUNDAY – TIME TO MAKE CHRISTMAS PUDDING

STIR-UP SUNDAY – TIME TO MAKE CHRISTMAS PUDDING

Stir-up Sunday is the last Sunday before the season of Advent. It gets its name from the beginning of the collect for the day in the Book of Common Prayer, which begins with the words, “Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people”. It is associated with the custom of making Christmas puddings on that […]